James Joyce met Paul Léon in 1928, six years after the publication of Ulysses. “When Joyce learned that Paul’s middle name was Leopold (like Leopold Bloom, the everyman hero of Ulysses), he ...

That life, to be sure, had few monumental events. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, born to a struggling Dublin family in 1882, seems to have spent most of his waking hours asking various ...

Ireland's difficult relationship with one of its most famous sons, James ... As Joyce's spendthrift father slid down the social ladder from landlordship to bankruptcy, the family moved house ...